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== Planned Schedule ==
== Planned Schedule ==


* Announcement email: January 28, 2008
** [http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2008-January/004939.html On the developers' mailing list]
** [http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2008-January/094114.html On the users' mailing list]
* Create VTK-5-2 branch: end of February, 2008
* Create VTK-5-2 branch: end of February, 2008
* Fix bugs in priority order: through the end of March, 2008
* Fix bugs in priority order: through the end of March, 2008

Revision as of 20:00, 28 January 2008

Planned Schedule

  • Announcement email: January 28, 2008
  • Create VTK-5-2 branch: end of February, 2008
  • Fix bugs in priority order: through the end of March, 2008
  • Stabilize the dashboards and release the first release candidate for VTK 5.2: early April, 2008

What's New in VTK 5.2?

New features in VTK since the 5.0 release include:

  • Infovis kit
  • Views kit
  • New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new widgets
  • New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio, sqlite
  • Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib
  • More than 300 new C++ classes.
  • More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards
  • Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support and Mac OSX support